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These desiderata sum up to an elaborate, sparse, and expensive search space.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            Our generative approach is a carefully designed exploration process, comprising two steps. In\n            <jats:italic>Segment Discovery<\/jats:italic>\n            connections from the input load to attachable regions are accumulated, and during\n            <jats:italic>Segment Composition<\/jats:italic>\n            the most performing valid combination is searched for.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            For Discovery, we define a slim grammar, and sample it for parts using a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, ran in intercommunicating instances (i.e, chains) for diversity. This, followed by a short continuous optimization, enables building a diverse and high-quality library of substructures. During Composition, a valid and minimal cost combination of the curated substructures is selected. To improve compliance significantly without additional manufacturing costs, we reinforce candidate parts onto themselves --- a unique SM capability called\n            <jats:italic>self-riveting.<\/jats:italic>\n            we provide our code and data in https:\/\/github.com\/amir90\/AutoSheetMetal.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>We show our generative approach produces viable parts for numerous scenarios. We compare our system against a human expert and observe improvements in both part quality and design time. We further analyze our pipeline's steps with respect to resulting quality, and have fabricated some results for validation.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>We hope our system will stretch the field of SM design, replacing costly expert hours with minutes of standard CPU, making this cheap and reliable manufacturing method accessible to anyone.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/3592444","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,26]],"date-time":"2023-07-26T14:29:21Z","timestamp":1690381761000},"page":"1-13","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Generative Design of Sheet Metal Structures"],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"42","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-0531-0352","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amir","family":"Barda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4376-2403","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guy","family":"Tevet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2464-0876","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adriana","family":"Schulz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3592-1112","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amit Haim","family":"Bermano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_2_1_1","volume-title":"Topology optimization: theory, methods, and applications","author":"Bendsoe Martin Philip","unstructured":"Martin Philip Bendsoe and Ole Sigmund. 2013. 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